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The Undoing of America
For the past 40 years or so of Gore Vidal’s prolific 59-year literary career, his great project has been the telling of the American story from the country’s inception to the present day, unencumbered by the court historian’s task of making America’s leaders look like good guys at every turn. The saga has unfolded in two ways: through Vidal’s series of seven historical novels, beginning with Washington DC in 1967 and concluding with The Golden Age in 2000; and (…)

Obliterated Fallujah & "The ’horrid case’ against my country is that the people either support mass murder or really don’t care enough to change it"
From an exchange between two Blog sites, Fountainhead and Another Day in the Empire:
An email received yesterday:
"You expect to sell your art work to Americans while you publish the most incredible lies. I just bet you are an American too. Re: your article about Fallujah published in Anwaar Hussain?s hate blog.
How do you know that (…)

by : Military Families Against the War
No government minister has been available to explain the apparent change in the legal advice given by Lord Goldsmith in March 2003 regarding war with Iraq. Not only was the resignation letter from Elizabeth Wilmshurst, deputy chief legal adviser to the Foreign Office, censored but the government continues to refuse to release Lord Goldsmith’s full legal advice.
This situation should not go on. On the ’Today’ programme this morning former defence (…)

NO Military Service for Gannon/Guckert Fake name. Fake reporter. Fake news agency. And now this ...
Fake Marine.
First, we went to the Military Personnel Records of the National Personnel Records Center at St. Louis, Missouri, the supposed repository of all military records.
No record showed, but the official letter hemmed and hawed and scraped its military-booted feet so much, kinda sorta explaining that they’re often ... well ... ummm ... screwed up ... and that we should check (…)

by JOSHUA FRANK
It was just over two years ago that I learned a little-known "antiwar" Democrat from Vermont was planning to run for President. At a rally on the eve of Bush’s Iraq invasion, a fellow protestor handed me a leaflet touting the now infamous Howard Dean, hoping that the propaganda would entice me to support his forthcoming candidacy.
Of course, I was intrigued. Few other Democrats were speaking out against the imminent war on Iraq. Luckily, I ended up not taking the bait. (…)

by Doug Thompson "What," a reader wanted to know, "turned you into such a Bush-hater?"
Nothing.
I’m not a Bush-hater. I don’t know the man well enough to hate him. Hate is a personal emotion. I don’t get personal.
I am, however, very angry over what Bush and his minions have done to the country I love.
I’m angry over his disregard for the more than 1,500 Americans he has sent to their death in his lies-based war.
I’m angry about the lies he told to try and justify that senseless (…)

Buck Up, The Word Hates Us More Than Ever Why The Left Was Right After All Ted Rall March 22, 2005 NEW YORK-Liberals have their faults, but no one can accuse them of being pigheaded. Two years after left-of-Bush Americans marched against the invasion of Iraq and a year after the Administration admitted it had lied about Saddam’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al Qaeda, the sprouting of a few protodemocratic weeds in the microscopically-cracked cement of Arab (…)

by Cindy Sheehan
This past weekend was the two year anniversary of the beginning of ’shock and awe’ of the US Government’s aggression in Iraq. If all you did was watch CNN, FOX News, or MSNBC, you would never know.
There were protests all across our nation. CNN called the over 800 protest events ’barely a ripple’. I spoke at a protest in Fayetteville, North Carolina where there were right around 4000 people. 4000 people full of energy and committed to the task of peace and justice and (…)

"It’s happening again . . . woke up this morning to clear blue skies here in the lower Hudson Valley . . . three hours later, the entire sky is criss-crossed with chemtrails, and there are three or four planes up there continuing to lay them down . . . these are NOT contrails . . . the patterns have no relationship to the flight paths in or out of New York airports, but literally cover the entire sky . . . someone is spraying something, and I’d sure love to know just what it is, who’s doing (…)

European day of action Demonstrate against Deportations Rally against Racism Saturday April 2nd 2005 South Manchester March March with Mansoor Hassan and family 12.30pm, Whitworth Park Wlimslow Road Manchester North Manchester March March with Farhat Khan and family 12.00 noon, Goldstone Park, Cheetham Hill Road/Waterloo Road Manchester Central Manchester March March with Debbie Mgijima and Moses Kayiza 12.30pm at the HIV memorial, "the beacon of hope", Sackville Park, Sackville (…)